Saint Louis University’s program in bioinformatics and computational biology is supported by faculty from a variety of academic units, including the departments of biology, computer science, chemistry, and mathematics and statistics.
Program Director
Associate Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Research Interests: Anti-fungal drug discovery
Faculty
Tae-Hyuk (Ted) Ahn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Bioinformatics and high-performance computing
Gerardo Camilo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Research Interests: Ecology and biostatistics
Erin Wolf Chambers, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer algorithms, geometric and topological algorithms
Brian Downes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Research Interests: Plant molecular biology
Michael Goldwasser, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer algorithms and data structures
Haijun Gong, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Research Interests: Biostatistics and cancer models
Jie Hou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning and data mining methods for bioinformatics
Jack Kennell, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Research Interests: Mitochondrial genomics and mitochondrial-nuclear interactions
David Letscher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Geometric and topological algorithms, high-performance computing
Zhenguo Lin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Research Interests: Evolution of genome and gene regulation
Allison Miller, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Research Interests: Perennial plant diversity and evolution
Dapeng Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Research Interests: Computational methods to understand molecular pathways
Brent Znosko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests: Biochemistry, thermodynamics and NMR of nucleic acids